The Legend of the Coming of the First Kangaroo. Dedicated to the Patriotic Efforts of the Australia Day Council to fittingly celebrate Australia's National Day, January Twenty-six
Caulfield, Les Fryer and Phillip Chaffey at the Truesdell Press, 1948.
Octavo, [19] pages with 2 full-page linocut illustrations (one printed in three colours, the other in monochrome).
Overlapping wrappers (comprising a large sheet of textured paper folded in two along the top edge, which remains uncut, effectively creating a pair of wrappers), saddle-sewn though the inner wrapper, with the front panel of the outer wrapper lettered in black and blindstamped with a small illustration of a kangaroo; all edges uncut; covers slightly tanned about the edges; a near-fine copy.
Number 52 of only 100 copies 'printed by Les Fryer and Phillip Chaffey at the Truesdell Press Caulfield from hand-set type with colour block cut in linoleum by Lindsay A. Dane'. The text comprises the purported Aboriginal legend itself (6 pages, anonymous), and Barron Field's poem 'The Kangaroo'. Muir 4169 ('Book printed for fine-book collectors; not for children').
Item #145170
Price (AUD):
$125.00